Category Archives: Canadian Press

Rookie Rowdy Tellez reunited with father after emotional Blue Jays debut
TORONTO - Rowdy Tellez stood in the arrivals section of Toronto’s Pearson International Airport past midnight, waiting to tell his dad Greg the great news: he’d hit a double in his first M...
Sep 06, 2018

Hall of famer Steve Nash changed game of basketball: high school coach
VANCOUVER - When Steve Nash is inducted into basketball’s Naismith Hall of Fame on Friday, his high school coach will be watching from Victoria, B.C., and beaming with pride. Ian Hyde-Lay said t...
Sep 06, 2018
Ontario hospitals will need to find 'efficient' ways to operate: Elliott
TORONTO - Ontario’s new government will uphold a promise to address hospital overcrowding but any action taken must have fiscal restraint in mind, the province’s health minister said Thurs...
Sep 06, 2018

Actor Terry Crews settles suit with agent he says groped him
LOS ANGELES - Actor Terry Crews and agent Adam Venit have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which Crews alleged Venit groped him at a Hollywood party. Venit’s agency William Morris Endeavor, also na...
Sep 06, 2018

Agriculture, NAFTA on menu stage on Day 15 of Quebec election campaign
MONTREAL - Quebec Liberal Leader Philippe Couillard launched into another defence of supply management on the campaign trail Thursday, pushing back at opponents of the system who argue abolishing it w...
Sep 06, 2018
Ex-Browns LB Kendricks pleads guilty to insider trading
PHILADELPHIA - Former Cleveland Browns linebacker Mychal Kendricks pleaded guilty to insider trading charges on Thursday, and faces up to 25 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter aske...
Sep 06, 2018
Family: IndyCar's Robert Wickens broke neck and spinal cord
INDIANAPOLIS - IndyCar driver Robert Wickens fractured his spinal cord and neck, as well as seven other serious injuries, when he crashed at Pocono Raceway. The family of the Canadian driver revealed ...
Sep 06, 2018
Arkansas court hears 2 death row inmates' appeals
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Attorneys for two death row inmates who were spared from execution last year asked Arkansas’ highest court on Thursday to strike down a law that gives the state’s priso...
Sep 06, 2018
New Hall of Fame exhibit tells story of catcher-spy Moe Berg
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - The Baseball Hall of Fame has opened a new exhibit on Moe Berg, the major league catcher-turned-spy whose story was the subject of a Hollywood film released this summer. “Moe...
Sep 06, 2018

Ottawa funds health changes aimed at giving First Nations more control
WINNIPEG - The federal government has taken another step in transferring control over Indigenous health programs to First Nations. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced $68 million over...
Sep 06, 2018